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Ford logs strongest-ever calendar year start for SUVs in US; sales bolstered by women and Millenials

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As a comparison, over the same periods, total Ford brand sales rose 8.6%, with sales of Ford cars rising 3.0% Explorer is the most preferred midsize SUV among women buyers, according to IHS personal registration data. Sales of Ford’s utilities for January and February 2016 were up 16.1% compared to the same period in 2015.

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Heat Pumps—The Well-Tempered Future of A/Cs

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Most of the growth of air conditioning will be in other countries,” says mechanical engineer Vince Romanin, co-founder and CEO of the San Francisco-based Gradient Comfort , “and restricting access is not fair.”

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Surfing the Metaverse’s Real Estate Boom

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A high-traffic spot is a bit like a flagship property in downtown San Francisco or Hong Kong. Today’s metaverse platforms are tiny by comparison, but virtual real estate in a successful metaverse could be valuable for any company or person looking to connect with a younger audience.

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Is aviation the best application yet for hydrogen fuel cells?

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It was always a personal passion, and I was already working on green transportation, so that was a natural intersection. Val Miftakhov: As you can imagine, we did a lot of this [comparison] early on as well. And that’s why, by the way, aviation is a much better use case for hydrogen than ground mobility, especially personal vehicles.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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It employs approximately 350 researchers, managers, and support staff (by comparison, Bell Laboratories before the AT&T breakup employed roughly 25,000). Networks that link personal computers in offices. If it was a personal computer, you had to be able to build 100.” and Toronto, Ont., Laser printers.

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Designing the First Apple Macintosh: The Engineers’ Story

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In 1979 the Macintosh personal computer existed only as the pet idea of Jef Raskin, a veteran of the Apple II team, who had proposed that Apple Computer Inc. When you have one person designing the whole computer, he knows that a little leftover gate in one part may be used in another part.” It’ll never work.’

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Q&A with CharIN North America President: It’s all about interoperability

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We just had one that happened in Germany and [another] in the San Francisco Bay area. Oleg: In my opinion as CEO and founder of IoTecha, I personally believe that it has huge promise, because automated charging actually eliminates the need to add weight and complexity to the vehicle. Any thoughts on automated charging?